Silk marriage fan

An image of Marriage Fan/Folding Fan. Double leaf of silk, painted in bodycolour, gold and silver, and decorated with gold tambour work and sequins. Sticks and guards of horn (12+2), shaped, pierced, silvered, gilt and set with clear pastes brilliants; guards also backed by irridescent shell. Rivet set with clear pastes. Length, guards, 25.2 cm, circa 1760.

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Marriage Fan/Folding Fan. Double leaf of silk, painted in bodycolour, gold and silver, and decorated with gold tambour work and sequins. Sticks and guards of horn (12+2), shaped, pierced, silvered, gilt and set with clear pastes brilliants; guards also backed by irridescent shell. Rivet set with clear pastes. Length, guards, 25.2 cm, circa 1760.

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Accession Number: M.222-1985
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 595 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 256.83kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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18th Century Artistic Movement Date Department Fitz_AA Material Medium Object Type Other Keywords Roccoco Rococo Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_Replace _WF_Replaced_OK bodycolour cherubs commemorative couple fan floral flowers folding fan gilded gilt gold hand fan horn lovers marriage marriage fan pierced romance romantic sequinned shell silk

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